Harry Potter plagiarism case dismissed

From Reuters: â€œA US judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Harry Potter author JK Rowling with copying the work of another author when writing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

The estate of late author Adrian Jacobs had said that the plot of the book, the fourth of seven in the wildly successful series that has been turned into a multi-billion-dollar film franchise, copied parts of the plot of his book Willy the Wizard, including a wizard contest, and that Rowling borrowed the idea of wizards traveling on trains.â€